Corpus Christi police were called to a downtown hotel Friday morning after they received a call that a man had barricaded himself inside a room with a woman.

According to KIIITV, the department's SWAT team was called to a Best Western Hotel, in the 200 block of North Shoreline Boulevard, around 10 a.m. The caller said there was an armed man who took a woman hostage on the third floor of the hotel where he was barricading himself.

The woman was brought down from the hotel room just after 11 a.m.The Corpus Christi Police Department tweeted a photo Friday that they were pulling a woman to safety at a downtown hotel near Shoreline Boulevard and Lawrence.